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PhD and Placement Students

PHD STUDENTS

Leslie Altic: Novel food production based on folate enrichment

Gianfranco Bartolini: Molecular mechanisms for anti-tumour protease activity from grain legumes

Tomasz Borkowski: Evaluation of plant extracts for anticancer potential in in vitro assays using colon cancer cell lines

Leanne Breslin: Vitamin D and autoimmune disease

Jennie Bronte: An investigation of the relationship between nutrient intake and adverse pregnancy outcomes in pregnant women with Type 1 diabetes

Emma Brown: Anti-cancer effects of soft fruit phytochemicals

Victoria Cairnduff: Associations between maternal diet, lifestyle factors and pregnancy outcomes of overweight and obese pregnant women

Aoife Carey: Malnutrition in children in the non-acute setting

Sue Dhamija An investigation of the nutritional intake and possible management of women who have hyperglycaemia or full-blown gestational diabetes

Kirsty Forsythe: Associations between body composition and inflammation

Ramandeep Garg: Wholegrains and health - a metabolomics approach

Stephanie Hodge: Psychosocial Underpinnings of Metabolic Syndrome - To explore potential associations between various psychological, social, behavioural, lifestyle & socioeconomic factors in populations in England, France, Northern Ireland and ROI

Catherine Hughes: An investigation into the role of vitamin B12 in healthy ageing

Sean Kerr: Body composition as a determinant of inflammation and glucose metabolism

Annemarie Kielt: B-vitamins, related genetic factors and bone health

Eamon Laird: Vitamin D status and metabolism: implications for bone health

Nicholas McClelland: Effect of fish oil supplementation on psychological function of older people

Therese Morgan: Effects of accumulated brisk walking on cardiovasculardisease risk factors

Amy Mullee: The effect of g-tocopherol (g-T) supplementation on g-T status, antitoxidant capacity and nitrosative stress in apparently healthy smokers

Sonja Nitecki: Biological effects of marine derived compounds on in vitro cancer models

Owen Nkhoma: Nutritional status of fishing communities on Lake Malawi

Heather Parr: Psychosocial aspects associated with Metabolic Syndrome

Mary Slevin: The effect of the mineral supplement Aquamin together with the short chain fructooligosaccaride Nutraflora on bone mineral density and bone turnover markers in postmenopausal women: a double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled intervention study

Carol Wilson: Riboflavin, blood pressure and the methylenetetrahydrofolate (MTHFR) 677C-T polymorphism

PLACEMENT STUDENTS:

Rachel Bryson:

Tracey Conlon: Effects of Vitamin D on prostrate cancer

Janice Cuddy: Bone health in postmenopausal women

Lisa Donnelly: The effect of multivitamin intervention on oxidative stress in haemodialysis patients

Gary Longshawe: Nutrition and bone health

Laura Porter: Professional practice and bioscience